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Such
a perfect figure -- it is a
real joy to photograph
Victoria A.!
So,
why doesn't this work? I
like the pose; I like the
blending of different textures
(skin, canvas, velour; I like
that Victoria's entire figure
is included -- nothing is
cropped out. Okay, the
right side of the image is a
little too dark; we could have
added a little more light on
that side.
So,
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Here's
a favorite from this sitting.
Victoria
is a beautiful, glamorous, sexy
woman, and she naturally
participates in the creation of
sexy glamour photographs.
Now, I have nothing against
glamour, and I like to think
that I dabble in the genre, but
I primarily consider myself to
be a "fine art"
photographer.
This
is not your typical glamour pose
-- the hand over her eyes gives
the image an introspective,
contemplative feel. The
touching tends to emphasize the
textures in the image.
Contrast this with the image
below -- subtle differences, but
not the same feel.
Pretty
good! (Perhaps I'm hard on
myself -- it's pretty good but
it can be improved.)
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Victoria
rolls over.
It's
probably crude &
inappropriate for me to say
this, but Victoria has a very nice
butt!
What
I like about this is that
while Victoria is nude, she's
not apparently nude -- her
"naughty bits"
aren't on display, but it is
clear that she is not wearing
anything at all. I love
her curves, the small of her
back, her narrow waist, the
silhouette of her
breast. I like the
sensuous expression on her
face and how she is touching
her face. This picture
invokes some passion -- can't
you imagine running your
fingertips across her skin?
Let's
count this one as a favorite,
too. |
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Here's
a particularly seductive
look. |
Experienced
models like Victoria are always
moving, showing the photographer
different poses & angles &
shapes. For a brief time,
Victoria sits up, and I make a
little experiment. I put a
little up-light behind Victoria,
positioned so that it highlights
parts of Victoria's figure without
hitting any of the backdrop.
See the high light on the bottom
of Victoria's lovely right breast
and on the underside of her right
arm? I put this there to
provide a different look to these
images & to provide some tonal
separation from what would
ordinarily be in shadow from the
background.
Sure,
it's subtle, but I like it.
For the rest of this setup, we use
this up-light. |
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One
habit of mine that contributes
greatly to what ability I have
is that I analyze &
"deconstruct" all
the photographs I see --
specially, I try to figure out
how images were lit &
produced. Because of
this habit, I keep ideas, like
this up-light, in mind &
try them out throughout
sittings.
Much
as I love the way Victoria
moves, I really want to work
on more horizontal
images. I ask Victoria
to show me some poses that are
more level.
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We're
working on it.
I
love the subtle highlight from
that up-light on the curves of
Victoria's abs & ribs. I
have never seen her in better
physical shape than in this
sitting -- that model boxing
training must pay off. I'm
glad I've included her entire leg
in this picture -- her legs look
terrific, and you get a good sense
of scale & proportion with
it. I don't know why, but I
often crop the lower parts of
models' legs, but somehow Victoria
appears more "nude" when
we can see that she's not wearing
socks or shoes. Strange,
huh?
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This
is the same picture as the one
above, with a totally
different
interpretation.
I
used to do this a lot, take my
pictures & look for
radically different
cropping. I particularly
am a fan of especially wide or
especially tall cropping. |
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One
final picture from this setup
-- I think I added an
additional light to the side to
highlight the small of
Victoria's back.
Such
is Victoria's versatility --
most of the time, she poses
for glamour photographers, but
she does real well with some
fine art poses, too.
Most models don't have that
kind of flexibility.
I'll call this image a sitting
favorite, too, despite the
fact that you can't really see
anything. But I love the
human architecture you can see
in her muscles & bones
& curves & shape.
We
made tons of images -- additional images from this sitting are available in the Out
Takes Galleries. These galleries are available to
those who have made a donation
to the upkeep of this web site. See this
FAQ question for more details.
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Before
the sitting, Victoria & I
discussed the various setups we were
going to try. One of the things
I really wanted to do with Victoria
was to invite her into my shower &
get her wet. This is not always
possible -- although models have been
known to endure harsh conditions, like
posing outdoors on cold & rainy
days, it's another thing altogether to
get a model messed up. But with
a little pre-planning, Victoria &
I chose a time when she wouldn't have
another sitting later that same day, so we had no
problem getting her hair wet.
So, off to the showers!
This
sitting concludes with Victoria
Gets Wet.
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